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Tag: Putney

Vitali Close, SW15

25 February 2025 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Miroslaw (Mirek) Vitali, OBE (October 5, 1914 – February 19, 1992) was a physician specialising in the treatment…

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Filed under: Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Putney, Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton, Roehampton Hospital, streets named after doctors, streets named after Poles, streets named after Russians, streets named after Ukrainians, Wandsworth, World War Two

Tangley Grove, SW15

18 November 2024 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Tangley is a small, village in the northwest of Hampshire. The name itself is Anglo Saxon and is…

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Filed under: Alton Estate, Anglo-Saxon, Putney, Putney Heath, Roehampton, social housing, streets with a Hampshire connection, Wandsworth

St Johns Avenue, SW15

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Place Name Originally St John’s Road. The name changed shortly after the Second World War. The Polish Church of St…

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Filed under: apostrophe, Church of England, East Putney, Putney, roads named after saints, Roman Catholic, street named after a church, Wandsworth

St Ann’s Hill, SW18

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Place Name Originally called The Grove. Like St Ann’s Crescent, which was, confusingly, called St Anne’s Hill, it is named…

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Filed under: Church of England, Putney, street named after a church, streets named after saints, Wandsworth, Wandsworth Town

St Ann’s Crescent, SW18

17 November 2024 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Curiously while St Ann’s Crescent has retained its apostrophe throughout the decades, it has lost an e in…

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Filed under: Church of England, misspelt, name change, Putney, street named after a church, Wandsworth, Wandsworth Town

Swinburne Road, SW15

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Place Name Algernon Charles Swinburne (April 5, 1837 – April 10, 1909) was one of the bad boys of poetry…

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Filed under: Balliol College, Dover House Estate, Putney, streets named after Eton connection, streets named after masochists, streets named after Oxford graduates, streets named after poets, Wandsworth, West Putney

Swandon Way, SW18

16 November 2024 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Agricultural. Until the 1980s this was a former industrial site with both gas works and a coal depot,…

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Filed under: field name, Putney, St Mary's, Wandsworth

Smeaton Road, SW18

14 November 2024 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Laid out in the 1890s it is named after John Smeaton (June 8, 1724 – October 28, 1792),…

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Filed under: industry, Putney, River Wandle, Southfields, streets named after engineers, streets named after people with a Yorkshire connection, streets named after scientists, Wandsworth

Shawford Court, SW15

11 November 2024 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Compton and Shawford is a civil parish in the City of Winchester, Hampshire. The name Compton comes from…

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Filed under: Alton Estate, Putney, Roehampton, social housing, streets with a Hampshire connection, Wandsworth

Sherfield Gardens, SW15

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Place Name Sherfield, often referred to as Sherfield-on-Loddon, is a village in north Hampshire. The name originates from the Old…

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Filed under: Alton Estate, Old English, Putney, Roehampton, social housing, streets with a Hampshire connection, Wandsworth

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